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	The Ultimate Slavery - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean cultures was a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.
		Slavery in the Americas during the 17th century was an institution that made little distinction as to the race of the enslaved or the free man. But by the 18th century, the overwhelming number of enslaved "fl" persons was such that white and Native American slavery was less common.
		Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Slavery (7961 words)

	History of slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean cultures was known to occur in civilizations as old as Sumer, and found in every such civilization, including Ancient Egypt, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Greece, Rome, parts of the Roman Empire and the Islamic Caliphate.
		Slavery in Japan was, for most of its history, indigenous, since the export and import of slaves was restricted by Japan being a group of islands.
		Slavery was outlawed on English Annexation of New Zealand in 1840, immediately prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, although it did not end completely until government was effectively extended over the whole of the country with the defeat of the King movement in the New Zealand Wars of the mid 1860s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_slavery (6505 words)

	The history of SLAVERY
		Slavery: (1) Drudgery, toil (2) Submission to a dominating influence (3) the state of a person who is a chattel of another (4) the practice of slaveholding.
		Historical records indicated that slavery was established in Quebec, by the French, through a royal mandate issued by Louis XIV in 1689.
		In sum, slavery began to decline in the opening decades of the nineteenth century because of the combination of factors which made slavery uneconomic in Canada, to which must be added the opposition of the law courts throughout British North America from the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
	www.bccns.com /history_slavery.html (943 words)

	History of Slavery in America
		1820 The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
		1850 The continuing debate whether territory gained in the Mexican War should be open to slavery is decided in the Compromise of 1850: California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories are left to be decided by popular sovereignty, and the slave trade in Washington, DC is prohibited.
		The legislation repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions.
	www.infoplease.com /timelines/slavery.html (548 words)

	History of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian slavery was widely practiced as well, especially in the 17th century.
		The first record of African slavery in Colonial America is of a Dutch ship which brought twenty fls recorded and sold them to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 as indentured servants.
		There was widespread sentiment during the American Revolution that slavery was a social evil (for the country as a whole and for the whites) and should eventually be abolished.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_United_States (3616 words)

	Slavery [Article] - World Book Online Reference Center (American English)
		Slavery flourished in the South, where large plantations grew cotton, tobacco, and other crops.
		But slavery was less profitable in the North, where economic activity centered on small farms and industries.
		For more information on the history of slavery in the United States, see African Americans (The years of slavery); United States, History of the (Expansion) (The irrepressible conflict).
	www.esu7.org /~sgsweb/HistoryOfSlavery.html (1204 words)

	Slavery and History of Slavery in America
		Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as concubines, warriors, servants, craftsmen, tutors, and victims of ritual sacrifice.
		A stark racial component distinguished this modern Western slavery from the slavery that existed in many other times and places: the vast majority of slaves consisted of Africans and their descendants, whereas the vast majority of masters consisted of Europeans and their descendants.
		Slavery has played a central role in the history of the United States.
	www.africanaonline.com /slavery_in_the_united_states.htm (845 words)

	slavery: History
		Slavery as a result of debt, however, existed in very early times, and some African peoples have had the custom of putting up wives and children as hostages for an obligation; if the obligation was unfulfilled, the hostages became permanent slaves.
		Slavery was an established institution in the Greece of Homer's time, and a large portion of the population of the Greek city-states in later days were of the servile class.
		Slavery in early Roman history seems to have been of the same type as in Greece, but by the 1st cent.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/bus/A0861124.html (1291 words)

	Roman Slavery; roman history, roman civilization
		The identity and experience of a Roman slave varied depending on the period of Roman history in which she lived, her place of birth, and the tasks to which she was assigned.
		Romans, in fact, assumed slavery was a universal social practice (and it was certainly widespread in the ancient Mediterranean).Slavery, accordingly, became a social institution embedded in every part of the world that the Romans came to dominate.
		One aspect of Gallic and German slavery that the Romans found interesting was the willingness [at least from the Roman point of view] of individuals to sell themselves into slavery to pay off their own debts.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/slavery.htm (3151 words)

	Black History Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Slavery had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place, socially, politically, and economically.
		Petition of 1780 by slaves for the abolition of slavery in Connecticut.
		Petition of 1788 by slaves of New Haven for the abolition of slavery in Connecticut.
	blackhistorypages.com /Slavery (2544 words)

	Africans in America \| Part 1 \| Narrative \| From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery
		One of the few recorded histories of an African in America that we can glean from early court records is that of "Antonio the negro," as he was named in the 1625 Virginia census.
		They were strangers and in many ways throughout the world, slavery has taken root, especially where people are considered outsiders and can be put in a permanent status of slavery.
		Slavery was not only a life-long condition; now it could be passed, like skin color, from generation to generation.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html (942 words)

	HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN VIRGINIA
		By 1783 slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
		Slavery died in the North as a direct result of forces set in motion by the Rights of Man movement.
		AF RICAN SLAVERY IN AMERICAThough Paine was not the first, as some have said, to advocate the aboliton of slavery in Amerca, he was certainly one of the earliest and most influential.
	www.louswebsite.com /new19.html (1643 words)

	The Hidden History of Slavery in New York
		The history presented here does not offer the flabby reflection that "slavery is bad" or that once it came to an end everyone lived happily ever after.
		The collection--co-edited by Ira Berlin, a distinguished scholar of slavery, and Leslie M. Harris, the author of a 2003 study of slavery in New York (The Shadow of Slavery)--assembles a prodigious group of scholars, writing on topics ranging from slave rebellion, slavery in the American Revolution, fl abolitionism and life after slavery.
		In 1635, when wages were not forthcoming, a small group petitioned the company for redress, and that's when they became "half-free." As a condition of their half-freedom, families who sustained themselves as farmers agreed to labor for the company when it called on them and pay an annual tribute in furs, produce or wampum.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20051107/slavery_in_new_york (1312 words)

	Africa and Slavery - African History on the Internet
		"The history of slavery in South Africa is as old as the establishment of white settlement at the Cape; the first slaves were domestic servants in Jan van Riebeeck’s household." From the 1999 Arts Diary site sponsored by the South African government's Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology.
		Austen is Professor of African History at the University of Chicago.
		Robin Law (ed.), Documents on the History of the Oyo Empire; texts relevant to the history of Oyo, drawing on published documents and translations of non-English texts (previously published, Department of History, University of Ibadan).
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/history/hislavery.html (7098 words)

	Slavery in America
		From the beginnings of slavery in British North America around 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 enslaved Africans to the Virginia colony at Jamestown, nearly 240 years passed until the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery in 1865.
		History Essays: Scholars and historians contribute original essays on the latest scholarship regarding the issues and events in the history of slavery in America.
		History Lesson Plans: Teachers contribute their best lessons on the events and issues that they think are the most important in the history of slavery in America.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /history/overview.htm (540 words)

	World History Blog: Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Slavery in the Roman Empire - This is an article by John Madden which looks at the origins and numbers of the slaves in the Roman Empire.
		Though slavery was a prevailing feature of all Mediterranean countries in antiquity, the Romans had more slaves and depended more on them than any other people.
		The history books did not recognize the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson and all Lanier had as proof was an Oral History passed down from generation to generation.
	world-history-blog.blogspot.com /search/label/Slavery (2615 words)

	A brief history of slavery in North America
		The historical record of slavery deals almost completely with the beliefs and actions of whites in Europe and North America.
		Both slave transportation, and slavery itself in the U.S. were brutal institutions.
		In 1787, William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was persuaded to lead an attack on slavery in Parliament.
	www.religioustolerance.org /sla_hist.htm (1250 words)

	SLAVERY
		Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money [property].
		"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
		Slavery by the Nazi regime in Germany during World War II
	www.religioustolerance.org /slavery.htm (502 words)

	Chronology On The History Of Slavery And Racism: 1790 - 1829
		Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1790 – 1829
		From the beginning of the city’s history, slavery was an integral part of the economy.
		'Slavery in a moral sense is an evil,' he declared in the debates, 'but as connected with commerce it has its uses.
	innercity.org /holt/chron_1790_1829.html (16854 words)

	Middle school links about the history of slavery
		Museum of Slavery -- A discussion of slavery with many links, maintained by a history professor at Pennsylvania State University.
		Teaching Slavery -- Sources identified by the Museum of African Slavery that may be useful to history teachers looking for pedagogical advice.
		Slavery Reparations -- This site documents current attempts to obtain money and apologies for the descendants of slaves and to secure the return of African artifacts.
	www.middleweb.com /Amistad.html (1209 words)

	History
		Based on the very successful Oxford Companion to British History, A Dictionary of British History, is an invaluable compact reference work on all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day.
		In addition, the library has extensive holdings of early American newspapers in microform.) The full text of digitized titles is also searchable, though the accuracy of searchable files of early imprints with difficult typefaces is rather lower than for later texts: Please take note of the "search hints" on the main search page.
		A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/hist (7762 words)

	History of Slavery
		Black History Canada, a new bilingual site with thematically organized information and resources, vetted for accuracy and compiled by editors from The Canadian Encyclopedia in consultation with Rosemary Sadlier, President of the Ontario Black History Society.
		Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories, put together by the Library of Congress, allows you to listen to interviews with 23 former enslaves people born between 1823 and the early 1860s.
		Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, which contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts and 500 photographs of former slaves, collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~kars/slavery.htm (855 words)

	A brief history of Slavery New Internationalist - Find Articles
		Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, where a male slave was worth an orchard of date palms.
		The African nations that supplied the slaves had a long history of slavery themselves.
		Sugar was the mainstay of slavery in Brazil, Cuba and Haiti.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_2001_August/ai_77712006 (948 words)

	Amazon.com: Slavery: A World History: Books: Milton Meltzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (African Studies) by Paul E. Lovejoy
		Originally published in two volumes, the first half deals with slavery from ancient times to the Renaissance, the second half concentrates on the African slave trade, and also covers some of the modern uses of forced labor, gulags and other types of near-slavery.
		It is incomplete because it overemphasizes slavery in pre-industrial times, and nearly ignores slavery in the 20th century, especially in regards to prison labor.
	www.amazon.com /Slavery-World-History-Milton-Meltzer/dp/0306805367 (1211 words)

	Slave-Studies.net (WWW-VL History)
		This site offers a subject catalog and a search engine providing access to internet resources for the study of slavery and abolition across all geographical areas and historical periods (with the exception of forced labor and sexual slavery under totalitarian regimes in the 20th century).
		In 1993, the Virtual Library History, edited by Professor Lynn Nelson of the University of Kansas, became the first operative section of the project.
		Today, the WWW Virtual Library History is large network of subject catalogs independently maintained by volunteers and institutions throughout the world.
	www.slave-studies.net (327 words)

	HistoryWiz: Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Slavery in the Roman Republic Ancient History Sourcebook - the conduct and treatment of slaves as seen through Roman comedy
		Slavery in the Roman Empire: Numbers and Origins John Madden Dublin University
		Parts of the exhibits include Slavery, the Peculiar Institution, Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period, Abolition, the Civil War, and later periods in African American History
	www.historywiz.com /slavery.htm (702 words)

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